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One thing I've found works well (though you won't see this ;-) is to alias things like HN & Drudgereport & NYT to localhost, and only view them on an iPad. The
by cpr 16y ago
One thing I've found works well (though you won't see this ;-) is to alias things like HN & Drudgereport & NYT to localhost, and only view them on an iPad. The fact that I have to physically shift my attention to another screen, one that isn't as large & easy to manipulate (for this old emacs hacker), makes it more of a chore and a choice one makes, rather than falling into bad habits.
Also, on the Mac, SelfControl works pretty well. I can turn off all the interesting sites for 8 hours at a time and not worry about them.
- TomOfTTB 16y agoI make a rule to only visit when I'm doing what I call "brain dead" tasks. Waiting on hold, the time before meetings where I show up on time and everyone else is fashionably late, and so on. It doesn't work when I get in a really intense debate but 95% of the time it's effective.
- carols10cents 16y agoSteve actually wrote a pomodoro gem that aliases sites like that for 25 minutes at a time: https://github.com/steveklabnik/pomodoro https://github.com/steveklabnik/pomodoro